Who am I?

I’m a, blogger and event/marketing/media consultant.
Blogging since 2002 and online since 1993 (I still remember my
Compuserve account number), I live in North London with my husband and
toddler, but was born in Cheadle.

Current interests: the planet, healthy living, cooking, Art Deco
ceramics, all flavours of CSI, sensible financial planning, social
media, virtual worlds and the arts in general. All this may change: a
woman’s prerogative, after all.

The Sheitgeist Index

Capturing the Sheitgeist:
a beat-the-bullshit no-holds-barred deconstruction of stupid
twenty-first century habits. Described in that stupid third-millennia
language-is-our-prisoner, buzzword-bingo way.

1. Arrangement fatigue

Everyone’s so damn busy, and you spend so long
trying to meet up
with four old friends that at least half the potential group lose
interest anyway.

2. Choice inertia

You can’t decide between tea-tree washing-up liquid
with added air quality enhancer or hand-soothing lemon freshness, so you do
nothing.

3. Party arbitrage

Sounds like a great party, but you might get a better offer,
and
you’d like to decide at the very last moment. Later, even.
Goes
hand-in-hand with late-onset arrogance.

4. Trophy husbandry

Female high-fliers seeking out a buff/bright/ballsy
stay-at-home guy as their trailing spouse.

5. Subscription addiction

Convinced your life would be immeasurably improved if you
could
speed-read the Economist, Elle Deco and the Spectator, you take out
multiple-subscriptions but are, of course, far too busy to read them.

6. Wish-list envy

Too time-poor to develop your own wishlist on Amazon.com, you
surf
someone else’s and nick their obscure interests in, say, the
work
of Kilburn artist Robert
Lenkiewicz.

7. Life-force sappery

Those friends who suck your energy and want to meet up all the
time but
you don’t have any oomph left to tell them the
friendship’s
over.

8. Furry fandom

Your neighbour has a kitten. Your Mum has a kitten. Everyone
in your
office has a kitten. It’s like it’s gonna make them
feel
better, or something.

9. Post-penetration generation

Everyone you know is so kinky that they don’t even
have old-fashioned sex anymore.